While Santos is busy trying to select a new vice president, his wife finds her new responsibilities staggering. Meanwhile, Vinick ponders his next move.

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While Santos (Jimmy Smits) is wrapped up in choosing his new Vice President, Helen (Teri Polo) is overwhelmed by the issues facing the new First Family. Meanwhile, Vinick (Alan Alda) must find a new road now that the election is over.

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"We'll have episodes at the end where we'll follow (chief of staff) C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) and see what is happening in her life. There is an episode about what happens to (disgraced speechwriter) Toby (Richard Schiff). We have a full episode with what is happening with Vinick and Santos, what is happening in the rest of the their lives. We will have an episode about (Santos' campaign manager) Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) and an episode about Bartlet (Martin Sheen).
"It was going to be an episode about Bartlet and Leo. Now it will be an episode about Bartlet."

"'West Wing' deals with its final days"
by Alan Pergament
January 25, 2006
Buffalo News

O'Donnell, who was charged with writing Vinick, called it "my greatest pleasure on 'The West Wing,' especially since I once said that it would never be a Republican political show."

He said his mind was changed after attending the 2004 GOP convention in New York and seeing the party's future in people like former New Jersey governor Christie Whitman, mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: politicians who are liberal on some issues, conservative on others.